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| Cerebus:
--- Quote from: donotdespisethesnake on September 16, 2020, 02:44:56 pm --- --- Quote from: Cerebus on September 16, 2020, 01:10:04 pm ---You do know what an enzyme is, don't you? --- End quote --- No, I have no fucking clue, because I am a fucking moron. Of course I know what a fucking enzyme is! But thanks for your patronizing comments, it really helps the discussion. :=\ :=\ :=\ :=\ :=\ :=\ :=\ :=\ --- End quote --- How should I know that you know what an enzyme is without posing the question when you practically describe one as if it's a novel bit of biochemistry? It's a straight question. No patronizing was intended. Trust me, if I'm being deliberately rude or patronising, you'll know it. But don't expect me to walk on eggshells just because you've got a fragile ego and immediately take offence at an innocent question. It's been my experience that a lot of engineering types can be remarkably ignorant outside the the maths/physics/electronics arena - go and check out any of this year's earlier discussions on Covid-19 to find proof of that. Ignorance is not the same thing as stupidity. Assuming that you know what enzymes are when you practically describe them as if they're something new would be foolish. Would you prefer that I had assumed you knew what they were and started berating you for making what would be an apparently stupid assertion on that basis? Seems you'd want to pick a fight either way. |
| eti:
--- Quote from: donotdespisethesnake on September 16, 2020, 02:44:56 pm --- --- Quote from: Cerebus on September 16, 2020, 01:10:04 pm ---You do know what an enzyme is, don't you? --- End quote --- No, I have no fucking clue, because I am a fucking moron. Of course I know what a fucking enzyme is! But thanks for your patronizing comments, it really helps the discussion. --- End quote --- If you speak like that to people, how do you expect them to react - positively? Maybe you should deal with your personality issues before engaging in discussion. Imagine how well that would have ended if you'd been face to face with them. Chill out, go eat a banana and thump a few trees. |
| chickenHeadKnob:
--- Quote from: Gyro on September 16, 2020, 10:42:29 am --- It would be very easy to put a buoyant probe into that zone, more or less indefinitely - far easier than putting another very short lived probe on the surface. Once you've put one on the surface, for the achievement / hell of it / to look for big ceramic monsters roaming the surface, there's really no reason to expend the resources to ever go down there again. --- End quote --- The moment the news broke on this story I began wracking my brainz trying to figure out how you would capture any of these cloud lifeforms intact and return to earth for study. It seems a non-trivial problem. Initial collection maybe easy, but then what. They may be sturdy extremophiles in their native conditions, but then turn into a bowl of small molecule soup by the time you get them back to earth. |
| Ed.Kloonk:
--- Quote from: chickenHeadKnob on September 17, 2020, 05:32:45 am --- --- Quote from: Gyro on September 16, 2020, 10:42:29 am --- It would be very easy to put a buoyant probe into that zone, more or less indefinitely - far easier than putting another very short lived probe on the surface. Once you've put one on the surface, for the achievement / hell of it / to look for big ceramic monsters roaming the surface, there's really no reason to expend the resources to ever go down there again. --- End quote --- The moment the news broke on this story I began wracking my brainz trying to figure out how you would capture any of these cloud lifeforms intact and return to earth for study. It seems a non-trivial problem. Initial collection maybe easy, but then what. They may be sturdy extremophiles in their native conditions, but then turn into a bowl of small molecule soup by the time you get them back to earth. --- End quote --- No one would have believed that in the first few years of the 21st century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own. |
| RoGeorge:
Chill down everybody, men are from Mars, women are from Venus. ;D |
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